Pete Hegseth refused to clarify his “no quarter” comment—then doubled down. When Sen. Kelly said his response proves he’s unfit, Hegseth snapped: “It makes it clear to our enemies.” Yeah… the enemy shouldn’t be the Constitution.

Hegseth is openly antisemitic and a white supremacist. Ironic that the regime tried to claim last year that they were combating antisemitism (a smokescreen for suppressing free speech) yet there will be zero consequences for Hegseth.

Speaker Johnson extended the DHS shutdown for over a MONTH for no reason at all. This is the same bill the Senate passed five weeks ago.   An inexcusable failure by House Republicans. But it’s a very good thing the TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, & more will finally be funded.

I worked mob cases across all five families. I transcribed wiretaps from payphones. Not once did anyone say “86” when they meant kill.

Justice KAGAN, dissenting in Louisiana v. Callais: The Voting Rights Act was ‘born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers’ and a disappointing exercise ‘in politics and partisanship.’

Luckily for ICE agent Jonathan Ross, he only murdered someone. If he had taken a photo of seashells on a beach, he'd be in *real* trouble.

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

Why has our country fallen so far? Because a major political party built its brand on constant outrageous lying.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

Feels like reality is setting in that there's been no oil getting through the strait of Hormuz for 2 months and countries are literally going to run out. Europe is on the verge of being out of jet fuel. Meanwhile, the stock market is st all time highs. None of it makes any sense.

Ted Cruz of Texas complains shamelessly on Fox News about other states gerrymandering

Pete Hegseth is as unqualified as he is evil and dangerous.

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

Today’s Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act and turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems.

🚨 HOT MIC: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was caught asking staff during questioning of Trump judicial nominees: “What would be wrong if they said Biden won?” Multiple people in the room heard it. GOP staffers were reportedly panicking, according to sources familiar.

Trump: I’m not a king. Official White House account:

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric — have they heard Trump?

In my new piece in @theatlantic.com, I argue that the consensus about birthright citizenship extended far beyond elite legal circles to readers of newspaper advice columns and letters to the editor pages for well more than a century. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

even Kim Jong Un has refrained from putting himself on North Korea's passport

Edward Kolla, a professor at Georgetown University and an expert on the history of passports, called the decision “wacky.” No modern U.S. passport has featured the image of a sitting president, and no foreign passport has featured “the head of state of any country,” Kolla said

EXCLUSIVE: The State Department is close to finalizing a radical redesign of the U.S. Passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump

$400M for Trump's ballroom? On top of: -$1.5T for the Pentagon -$170B for ICE and Border Patrol -$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet -$496M to send National Guard into cities -$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" -$100M for Trump's golf outings But nothing for working people.

Referring to Obama as "Hussein Obama," not Barack Hussein Obama or just Obama, should make it clear how racist and islamophobic Trump is. This kind of rhetoric built on lies (like the doctored photo) is what has been dividing our country for over a decade.

Trump Claims Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Reinforces Need To End Journalism https://theonion.com/trump-claims-correspondents-dinner-shooting-reinforces-need-to-end-journalism/

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:

A real photo of Kid Rock addressing service members at the Pentagon today. Nice summation of where things stand in the United States.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today the United States is being “humiliated by the Iranian leadership.” He also questioned the endgame, warning that entering a conflict without an exit plan risks repeating failures seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mark Carney: "Many of our former strengths, built on our close ties to the US, have become weaknesses. The US has changed. That's their right. And we're responding ... we're deepening our partnerships with our closest allies, including the EU, the Nordic countries, and Australia."

AOC says we shouldn’t be using taxpayer money to build Trump’s ornate castle/ballroom while people are struggling to pay for healthcare and rent.

Kash Patel’s laughably hyperbolic praise of the Trump DOJ sounds like a ten year old stubbornly claiming the 2026 Mets-currently 9-19 after losing 15 of their last 17 games-are the best team in baseball history

I mean so does the presidency.

Trump blames eight million people for last night’s attack.

Donald Trump is bad for the country. Donald Trump is bad for the country. Donald Trump is bad for the country. Donald Trump is bad for the country.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Don’t try to shoot anyone over it, which won’t help anything, but it remains absolutely true that Trump is an existential threat to America who should be removed from office as quickly as possible. He’s a sociopathic megalomaniac whose corruption and unfitness is unparalleled in history. Impeach

"I was totally exonerated." Which is why Donald is fighting tooth and nail to stop the Epstein files about his crimes from being released. And O'Donnell is the "disgrace" for repeating well-founded accusations against Donald, not Donald for engaging in such foul behavior.

Trump is the disgrace.

On 60 Minutes, Trump said he delayed Secret Service evacuation during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner chaos because he “wanted to see what was going on”.

🚨BREAKING: A Virginia circuit court has refused to block the implementation of Democrats’ new congressional map, which voters approved in a statewide special election last week. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Breaking news: The Trump administration provided a lower level of security for the White House correspondents’ dinner than it has for other gatherings of high-ranking officials, according to officials familiar with the plan.

Sad that Americans will not discuss how they put Republicans back into power so that they could stop Democratic efforts to help defend Europe from the Kremlin.

There seems to be some uncertainty about this. Trump saying this proves he needs a ballroom doesn't have to be news. Like, corporate media can focus instead on true things that matter.

Life was 600% better before Trump.